A billion birds have disappeared from North America since 1970, and a third of bird species across the continent are threatened with extinction, a new report says.
Source: A third of birds in North America threatened with extinction – Technology & Science – CBC News
A new version was released of the international agreement that negotiators at the Paris climate conference have been haggling over for more than a week.
Source: A New Draft Agreement for Paris Climate Negotiators – The New York Times
uranium here is low compared with that of newer mines to the south and east of Lake Athabasca, where the uranium concentration, or grade, in the rock extracted can be as high as 20 per cent. Here, it’s closer to 0.2 per cent – a fraction that, until recently, made mining it cost-prohibitive.
Karla McManus 
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